(i) the
New South Wales Labor Premier (Mr Bob Carr) has secured an historic
third four-year term of government in the New South Wales Parliament,

(ii) the
re-election of the New South Wales Labor Government is an endorsement
of Mr Carr’s plan to secure New South Wales’ future, and

(iii) the
people of New South Wales have voted for a government that unequivocally
rejects the legitimacy of the unilateral war on Iraq;

(b) congratulates:

(i) Mr
Carr and the New South Wales Labor administration for their election
campaign, and

(ii) Labor
candidates and campaign teams for their part in a campaign that has
reduced Liberal/National representation to its lowest level in almost
two decades; and

(c) expresses
its condolences to the family of Mr Jim Anderson, former Member for
Londonderry, following his sudden death on the morning of polling day.

432 Leader
of the Australian Democrats (Senator Bartlett): To move—That
the Senate—

(a) notes:

(i) the
announcement on 24 March 2003 by the Queensland State Government that
it will legislate to protect the pristine sand dunes of Shelburne Bay
on Cape York Peninsula by not renewing two mining leases over the Shelburne
Bay dune fields,

(ii) that
Shelburne Bay is one of the largest and least disturbed areas of active
parabolic dunes in the world, and is listed on the National Estate,

(iii) that
any mining would have involved the removal of two dune systems and the
construction of a major port facility on the edge of the Great Barrier
Reef, and

(iv) that
the cancellation of the leases had been called for by the traditional
owners, the Wuthathi people, to enable them to have greater access to,
and involvement in, this special area of their traditional lands; and

(b) congratulates
the Beattie Government for its sensible decision, and the many conservation,
indigenous, political and community groups who have campaigned so long
to achieve this outcome.